Savannah Holtam Opinion paper – ABORTION March 6, 2008 English 105 – Saturdays “Mommy Don’t Murder Me” Abortion is murder of an innocent human life. An innocent baby should not have to die because people choose to be irresponsible; there are other ways around abortion. The best way to avoid getting an abortion is giving your baby to a loving family. There are people that cannot conceive children of their own. Everyone should take responsibility for their own actions, and step up to the plate. The child that is being aborted is your son/daughter. They will love you unconditionally. They will look up to their parents, and respect them. Children will laugh when they are happy, and cry when hurting. A child should always have someone to be there to love them, and teach them how to be a better person. I love my son more then life it self, and to me life is not worth living without him. I could never live with myself, knowing Iended a human life. This child could be the future president; they deserve a chance to be all they can be. You can not take away someone’s life; it is not your decisionto make. God and only God can decide when to end someone’s life. In the United States it is legal for a womanto terminate her pregnancy with no questions asked as long as she is 24 weeks or less. At 24 weeks a fetus is a moving, breathing human being, with a beating heart. An unborn child comes into this world a helpless, innocent,and defenseless. If my mother was unable to care for me; I would not want to be aborted. I am glad that I am here today breathing and living life, No matter how hard my life has been or what challenges I have been faced with; I thank god everyday to be here on this beautiful planet earth. Everyone deserves the chance at life. Everyone will grow into a beautiful strong human being. When I look at my beautiful, smiling son I wonder how someone can abort their pregnancy. I got pregnant when I was only fifteen years old; abortion was never an option...

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...Abortion is Vicious
Michelle Thomason
Everest University
Composition I
ENC 1101-93
Christina Duffman
June 15, 2013
Abortion is Vicious
The question that is being asked and is on most people’s minds: “Is abortionmurder?” Indeed, abortion is murder because it’s premeditated killing of someone who cannot, or is not given the opportunity, to defend themselves. The fetus has no defenses. In the case of Roe v. Wade (1973). Courts ruled unconstitutional a state law that banned abortions except to save the life of the mother. The Supreme Court ruled that the states were prohibited from making abortion illegal or controlling any aspect of abortion carried out during the first trimester of pregnancy, could only decrees abortion regulations sensibly related to maternal health in the second and third trimesters, and could decrees abortion laws protecting the life of the fetus only in the third trimester (Roe v. Wade, 1973). Studies have shown that pregnant mother’s freedom of choice over her body shouldn’t prevent her baby from having a chance at life. The fetus is a growing organism. Abortion should be banned within the United States because it is committing legal murder, it is creating immorality within our society, and choosing to place the child into adoptive care is a much better option...

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Arguing that abortion is murder and therefore immoral, assumes that both acts are synonymous. The argument implies that the morality of the act is syllogistically depended on definition; ' it is immoral because it is murder'. When both definitions are taken into account the argument no longer becomes convincing and it is dispossessed of its validity. Murder is the premeditated, unlawful killing of another person. It is the killing of actuality. When a person commits murder they are intentionally ending the life of a fully developed human being; a human being actually capable of thinking cognitively and possessing the potential to self-actualize. Abortion is the intentional termination of a pregnancy. It is the killing of potential. When a woman chooses to have an abortion, what she is choosing to kill is essentially the potential for life that she created and is cultivating within her own body. When the embryo growing inside of her is previable, it has not developed the same characteristics that distinguish a fully conscious human aware of its own existence from a spleen or a kidney. Abortion is not murder and cannot be defined as such. `
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...﻿Abortion Should be Legalized
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...Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo before viability.[note 1] An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is often called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced. The term abortion most commonly refers to the induced abortion of a human pregnancy. After viability, the relevant procedure is referred to as a "late termination of pregnancy".[1][note 1] Modern medicine utilizes medications and surgical procedures for induced abortion.
Abortion, when induced in the developed world in accordance with local law, is among the safest procedures in medicine.[2] Uncomplicated abortions do not cause either long term psychological or physical problems.[3] Unsafe abortions, however, result in approximately 47,000 maternal deaths[3] and 5 million hospital admissions per year globally.[4]
An estimated 44 million abortions are performed globally each year, with slightly under half of those performed unsafely.[5] The number of abortion has stabilized in recent years,[5] having previously spent decades declining as access to family planning education and contraceptive services increased.[6] Forty percent of the world's women have access to legal induced abortions (within gestational limits).[7]
Induced abortion has a long history and...